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Climate Action 100+ Net Zero Company Benchmark Shows Continued Progress on Ambition Contrasted by a Lack of Detailed Plans of Action

3BL Media

October 18, 2023 /3BL/ - Climate Action 100+, the world’s largest investor engagement initiative on climate change, has released the latest round of company assessments against its newly updated Net Zero Company Benchmark, drawing on distinct analytical methodologies and datasets from public and self-disclosed data from companies.

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ISS ESG, Qontigo, Launch Biodiversity-Focused Index Suite

ESG Today

Institutional Shareholder Services’ (ISS) responsible investment arm, ISS ESG and risk, analytics and index solutions provider Qontigo announced today the launch of the ISS STOXX Biodiversity Index Suite, aimed at helping investors to align their portfolios with biodiversity impact reduction goals.

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Green growth or “degrowth”? That is the question

Corporate Knights

Describing her vision of an economically buoyant and sustainable Europe in the era of climate change, she called on the EU to accelerate the development of the clean-tech sector, “from wind to steel, from batteries to electric vehicles”. When it comes to the European Green Deal, we stick to our growth strategy,” von der Leyen said.

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Time to Take Stock

Chris Hall

Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, said: “This report puts the cards on the table – except this is not a game. C target set by the Paris Agreement before 2040, according to UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) AR6 Synthesis report.

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Zerolytics to Track CA100+ Firms’ Transitions

Chris Hall

CA100+ was established in 2017 as an investor-led initiative aiming to collectively support the goals of the Paris Agreement by challenging the large corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters to take action on climate change. A total of 170 firms representing a total market capitalisation of US$10.3

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Climate Action 100+ Net Zero Company Benchmark Shows an Increase in Company Net Zero Commitments, but Much More Urgent Action Is Needed to Align With a 1.5°C Future

3BL Media

March 30, 2022 /3BL Media/ - New assessments released today by Climate Action 100+, the world’s largest investor engagement initiative on climate change, show some corporate climate progress against key climate indicators, but find much more action is urgently needed from focus companies to support global efforts to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C.

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‘First nail in the coffin’ for fossil fuels at COP28

Corporate Knights

“A call to transition energy systems away from fossil fuels—the first time oil and gas had been included in a COP agreement—won over those demanding strong action; but oil producers and developing countries were reassured by assertions that countries are free to follow their own paths to net zero,” Bloomberg News reports.

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